19Nov 09

We’re looking for people who want to manage a team in next year’s Pop World Cup.

If you don’t know the concept of the Pop World Cup, it’s simple. Tracks from participating countries go head to head in a tournament to decide which country is the champion of pop. As a manager, your job is to select tracks – between 3 and 7, depending how far your team gets – for the country you manage.

The game will start towards the end of January 2010, and you’ll know who you’re managing on December 5th, so you’ll have plenty of time to find songs. That really is all you need to know!

If you want to take part, leave your name (and some kind of contact – Twitter name, email, whatever) in the comments box. This time we’re going to give you some degree of choice as to which team you get. So please either put the word RANDOM next to your name, indicating that you’ll take whatever country you’re given, or pick FOUR countries you wouldn’t mind managing. (Country selection after the cut)

The countries taking part in the Pop World Cup are the same as those taking part in the football world cup. So if you don’t want a random choice you can pick from:

The draw (matching countries with managers) will take place at the start of Poptimism on the 4th December. We’ll allocate teams to the managers who’ve taken the random option first, then draw teams for people who named preferred countries.

That’s enough detail. This will be awesome and it is very fun to do (if sometimes heartbreaking and nerve-wracking).

BTW I know nothing of international music, but I should have plenty of time to do research in December so it should be fun and educational, especially if I end up with a total random like Chile or Cameroon or something.

Unfortunately not – two people who volunteered in the previous thread have places reserved (Martin S has already said yes) But! Both previous times we’ve done this there’s been at least one drop-out so I would be surprised if there weren’t a need for alternates. (It’s also possible that some people will quit because they can’t find anything bearable from that country I guess!)

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